Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute

Cognitive and motor impairments are common after a variety of brain diseases and insults and are a source of persistent disability in many individuals. Such disabilities result in loss of independence, substantial economic costs, and emotional burden to those affected and their caregivers.

 Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute is devoted to improving the lives of individuals with neurological disabilities through research. Institute scientists conduct grant-sponsored research on theoretical models of language, action, and motor impairments; advanced neurophysiological techniques of structure-function brain mapping; and naturalistic functional assessment. MRRI supports translation of research advances into rigorous clinical assessment tools, and a range of effective treatments including pharmacologic and experience-based treatments and assistive technology.

 

  

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5/6/13 - New article by Dr. Daniel Mirman and Kristen Graziano on the neural basis of lexical neighborhood effects published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 4/13 - The Cognition and Action Lab presented 4 posters at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting in San Francisco. 3/22/13 - Dr. Laurel Buxbaum gave an invited talk at the Symposium on Behavioral Neurology in Lucerne, Switzerland, entitled “Competitive interactions between action representations in apraxia”. 2/26/13 - New article by Dr. Junghoon Kim and colleagues, “Methodological considerations in longitudinal structural morphometry of traumatic brain injury” 11/20/12 - New article about the neural basis of phonological retreival in object naming by Dr. Myrna Schwartz and colleagues published in Brain. 10/2012 - Dr. Laurel Buxbaum gave a presentation at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Neurology Grand Rounds titled "Limb apraxia in left hemisphere stroke: Recent developments". 8/10/12 - New article by Ferdinand Binkofski and Dr. Laurel Buxbaum about the two action systems in the human brain published in Brain and Language 10/2/12 - Dr. John Whyte selected for the 2012 Council on Brain Injury Award. 9/26/12 - New article on sub-specialization in frontal cortex for different linguistic and executive functions by Dr. Malathi Thothathiri, Maureen Gagliardi, and Dr. Myrna Schwartz published in Neuropsychologia. Sept. 2012 - Dr. Tessa Hart's Traumatic Brain Injury Model System grant renewed by NIDRR for another 5 years. Sept. 2012 - Dr. Erica Middleton awarded a grant from NIDCD to apply principles of learning and memory to improving treatments for aphasia. April 2012 - John Whyte presented a webinar for the Brain Trauma Foundation on "Assessment and Prognosis in Severe TBI" 8/1/2012 - New article on the role of competition between appropriate and inappropriate actions in ideomotor apraxia by Dr. Steven Jax and Dr. Laurel Buxbaum. 7/20/2012 - Dr. Laurel Buxbaum had been promoted to Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University. 7/17/2012 - MossRehab named one of the top 10 rehabilitation hospitals in the country and #1 in Pennsylvania by US News and World Report. 7/1/2012 - Dr. Erin Vasudevan was awarded a National Scientist Development Grant from the American Heart Association for a project titled "Optimizing Locomotor Adaptation for Rehabilitation Post-Stroke". more news ...........